Zulema Yoma

Zulema Yoma (1938-) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1989 to 1991 with President Carlos Menem.

Biography
Zulema Yoma was born in 1938 to a family of Sunni Muslim Syrians in Nonogasta, La Rioja Province, Argentina in 1938. In 1966 she married Carlos Menem, a fellow Syrian-Argentine Muslim. In 1989 her husband converted to Roman Catholicism with their son Carlitos Menem, as the constitution (until 1994) only allowed for Catholics to be the President of Argentina. Zulema did not convert and remained a Muslim, and when Carlitos died in a helicopter crash, he was buried in an Islamic cemetery. She was first lady until 1991, when she divorced her husband. Her daughter Zulema Menem acted as the First Lady of Argentina until her father's terms ended in 1999.